Riverside County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a man hired to do maintenance on a property in Lake Elsinore, authorities said Wednesday.

Paramedics and sheriff’s Lake Elsinore station deputies were called to the home in the 16000 block of Holborow Avenue around 2 p.m. Tuesday for an unresponsive man.

Calfire/Riverside County Fire Department “paramedics were on-scene to provide medical aid to a Hispanic male adult with visible head trauma,” according to a sheriff’s statement. The man, later identified as Juan de Leon Lopez, 53, of Lake Elsinore, was pronounced dead.

According to the homeowner, De Leon Lopez was one of two men hired to do work on the home, officials said. The second man left the scene before first responders arrived.

Detectives with the Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit are investigating the death.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department asks anyone with information on this death to call 951-955-2777 or the Lake Elsinore station at 951-245-3300.

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